[{"content":" The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. 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What this line of effort covers # Placeholder text for LOE-03 · Cognitive Frameworks. Set out the scope here: what question this work is trying to answer, and what would count as progress.\nTheoretical frameworks # 4E cognition, organizational psychology.\nMain authors # Clark, Hutchins, Argyris.\nCurrent status # Placeholder. Keep this in step with the status shown on the home page.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/cognitive-frameworks/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Cognitive Frameworks","type":"projects"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Collective for Embodied Dialectics","summary":"","title":"Collective for Embodied Dialectics","type":"page"},{"content":" Turning the framework into a practical curriculum other organizations can run themselves. What this line of effort covers # Placeholder text for LOE-06 · Community Practice. Set out the scope here: what question this work is trying to answer, and what would count as progress.\nTheoretical frameworks # Popular education, situated learning.\nMain authors # Freire, Lave, Wenger.\nCurrent status # Placeholder. Keep this in step with the status shown on the home page.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/community-practice/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Community Practice","type":"projects"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/definitions/","section":"Definitions","summary":"","title":"Definitions","type":"definitions"},{"content":" Formalizing a practical, repeatable dialectical method usable by organizers without a philosophy background. What this line of effort covers # Placeholder text for LOE-04 · Dialectical Method. Set out the scope here: what question this work is trying to answer, and what would count as progress.\nTheoretical frameworks # Historical materialism, critical theory.\nMain authors # Marx, Ilyenkov, Adorno.\nCurrent status # Placeholder. Keep this in step with the status shown on the home page.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/dialectical-method/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Dialectical Method","type":"projects"},{"content":" Dialectics is a philosophical method of reasoning, dialogue, and inquiry that uncovers truth, drives change, or resolves contradictions through the clash of opposing forces or ideas. While its roots stretch back to ancient Greek philosophy—notably in the dialogues of Socrates, where opposing viewpoints were debated to arrive at clearer definitions—it was significantly expanded in modern philosophy by thinkers like G.W.F. Hegel and later adapted by Karl Marx.\nIn the Hegelian and Marxist traditions, dialectics typically operates through a dynamic three-stage process:\nThesis: An initial proposition, existing state of affairs, or historical condition.\nAntithesis: A reaction, contradiction, or opposing force that challenges the thesis.\nSynthesis: A higher-level resolution or integration that transcends the conflict, preserving elements of both while creating a new starting point for further development.\nRather than viewing concepts, history, or reality as static, dialectics treats them as interconnected, evolving systems shaped by internal tensions and contradictions.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/definitions/dialectics/","section":"Definitions","summary":"","title":"Dialectics","type":"definitions"},{"content":" Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. Meeting protocol Directives Meeting Date15. October 2026 Time21:00 CET Placelink sent with the invitationForMembers working on the directives and newcomers. Agenda2 objectives · 80 minStatusIn preparation The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us\\! ## Who We …\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\n.\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. ## How we plan Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning …\n(the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. ## How we plan Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning …\n.\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026#39;s time. Meetings are moments when things are **discussed, understood and planned**. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds **shared mental models** of them. Once everyone …\n.\n160 min 220 min # Main objective Time 1 Introduce newcomers to CEDFor: NewcomersOutcome: Every newcomer can explain in their own words who we are, what we offer, what we are not, and how GAST structures our work. Welcome and round of introductions20′Origins, GST, previous work5′The CED and its vision: theory and practice, synthesis.20′Questions and discussion15′ 60 min 2 Agree on the overarching directives of CEDFor: Active participantsOutcome: The draft directives are agreed. Review current proposals5′Decide, or move to a written proposal (stuck-decision protocol)10′Topic parking lot and next steps5′ 20 min Total 80 min Before the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\n💬 Discord, channel #directives Questions, objections and suggestions on the draft directives (current \u0026ldquo;Goals\u0026rdquo; page) go to the channel before the meeting, together with any comments on the materials about the collective. The facilitator collects what is still open and adds it to the agenda. Who does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nFacilitator Sends the agenda and materials, moderates the meeting, keeps the topic parking lot. Participant 1 Timekeeper Keeps the remaining time visible and announces the end of each time box. Participant 2 Note-taker Writes the minutes and publishes them in #directives after the meeting. Participant 3 Draft authors Draft the directives beforehand and write proposals for any still open afterwards. Participant 1 Participant 4 Introduction Prepares and gives the introduction for newcomers (objective 1). Participant 2 Materials # Material Objective Where How it contributes Pre-Collective Documents 1 Illustrates the origins of the CED and its vision. Basis for the newcomer introduction. Will be introduced during the meeting, but not discussed in detail. About us 1 Who we are · What we offer · Who we are NOT Basis for the newcomer introduction. Way of Work 1 Core principles Principles every directive has to respect: independence, rejection of dogmatism, responsible AI use. FAQ 1 Who we are and what we want Answers to the questions newcomers ask most often. Goals 2 Goals G1–G3 The current draft goals, the starting point for the directives. Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ) 2 All of it. Provides context. Optional reading: where the planning logic behind GAST comes from. Goals (Ogbeiwi, 2017 Ogbeiwi, O. (2017). Why written objectives need to be really SMART. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 23(7), 324–336. ) 2 Methods section Optional reading: how to write SMART objectives and how the content is formulated. How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nActive participation You take part in the discussion and in decisions.\nRead the About page, the Goals page and the draft directives beforehand (about 30 minutes).Post your questions and comments in #directives before the meeting.Attend the whole meeting, with a working microphone. Passive participation You listen in and stay informed, without deciding.\nNo preparation needed. If you could not prepare, join here, and that is fine.Questions in the text chat are welcome and are answered at the end.Newcomers can join for the introduction only (first 40 minutes). Non-participation You don\u0026#39;t attend, but stay in the loop.\nRead the minutes in #directives after the meeting. References Ogbeiwi, O. (2017). Why written objectives need to be really SMART. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 23(7), 324–336. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2017.23.7.324 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/links/directives-meeting-protocol/","section":"Links","summary":"","title":"Directives Meeting Protocol","type":"links"},{"content":" The collective\u0026rsquo;s founding line of work, which every other project here extends or feeds back into. What this line of effort covers # Placeholder text for LOE-01 · Embodied Dialectics. Set out the scope here: what question this work is trying to answer, and what would count as progress.\nTheoretical frameworks # Dialectical materialism, enactivism.\nMain authors # Hegel, Marx, Varela.\nCurrent status # Placeholder. Keep this in step with the status shown on the home page.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/embodied-dialectics/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Embodied Dialectics","type":"projects"},{"content":" Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\n.\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/faq/","section":"Collective for Embodied Dialectics","summary":"Frequently asked questions and criticisms we anticipated we answer on this page.","title":"Frequent Criticisms and Questions","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/gast/","section":"Gasts","summary":"","title":"Gasts","type":"gast"},{"content":" What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/gast/goals/","section":"Gasts","summary":"","title":"Goals","type":"gast"},{"content":"Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Lines of Effort","type":"projects"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/links/","section":"Links","summary":"","title":"Links","type":"links"},{"content":" How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. serves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. 2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. 3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. 4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. 5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. 6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. page. New topics go on the topic parking lot. The meeting is run as described in the Meetings Protocol Meetings Protocol How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone\u0026rsquo;s time. Meetings are moments when things are discussed, understood and planned. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds shared mental models of them. Once everyone shares that understanding, a decision or plan can follow.\nInformation can be exchanged in two ways, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses: # Asynchronous: chat channels, shared documents, written proposals. Everyone reads and responds in their own time and pace. Synchronous: meetings, in person or by call. Everyone is present at the same time. Asynchronous Synchronous Time ✓ Fits around work, care and rest. Nobody has to be free at the same hour ✗ Everyone has to be free at once, and every hour costs an hour from each participant Record ✓ Leaves a written record by itself ✗ Only what is written down in the minutes remains or AI transcriptions are active Reflection ✓ Time to think, look things up and phrase a point carefully ✗ Answers on the spot, so thinking time is short Speed of alignment ✗ Slow: a single question can take days to settle ✓ Fast: questions and answers go back and forth in minutes Misunderstandings and biases ✗ Hard to spot and clear up: a misreading can stand for a long time, and everyone reads through their own assumptions ✓ Surface quickly and can be cleared up immediately Shared understanding ✗ Hard to check whether everyone really understood the same thing ✓ Can be checked directly, with examples or by asking someone to explain the point in their own words Focus ✓ Each thread can stay on one topic ✗ Easily gets lost in tangents and unnecessary detail New questions ✓ Can be taken up one at a time, when there is time ✗ Uncertainties raised in a meeting tend to spawn further meetings Neither is enough on its own: # Asynchronous work carries most of the load: it spreads information, gathers questions, and settles everything that writing can settle. It prepares the synchronous alignment, so a meeting only has to close the gaps that remain. A meeting is needed only when the subject is complex enough, or when it is clear that not everyone is on the same page: the written discussion keeps circling, or contradictory readings appear.\nThe two also check each other. A meeting clears up the misunderstandings and biases that writing lets stand. Writing, in turn, keeps meetings from multiplying: questions that come up in a meeting are captured, then clarified in writing, and only come back to a meeting if writing has failed to settle them.\nMeetings are expensive # Every hour in a meeting is an hour from every participant: time taken from work, care and rest (see Way of Work Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ). Long, unstructured meetings are one of the main reasons committed people burn out and leave. So the true cost is not just measured in the total hours spent in meetings, but also their impact on motivation, health and performance. That is why we hold meetings sparingly and only on request, do everything that can be done in writing beforehand, and keep the meeting itself for what needs everyone at once. Events for socializing should be kept seperately from goal-driven occations.\nThe meeting protocol # A meeting protocol is how we make this work. Every meeting gets one: a single page that answers, before the meeting, everything a participant needs to know. The protocols are listed in the Links menu. The Directives Meeting Protocol Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nserves as the example throughout this page.\nThe three phases # Every meeting has three phases, and each has its own tasks and people responsible for them:\n1 Asynchrounous work: reading, discussions, questions. Preparation 2 Synchronous work: goal directed discussion, decision-making, and action planning. The meeting 3 What happens now? Follow-up ↺ Review and improve. Ensure that resulting decisions are implemented, and tasks are clearly assigned. 1. Preparation # Preparation starts with a question: does this need a meeting at all? Information that only needs to be read is sent in writing, and questions are first raised in the written discussion. A meeting is only called when written exchange is not enough, in one of two cases:\nThe subject is complex enough that questions and answers need to go back and forth quickly. It is clear that not everyone is on the same page, for example because the written discussion keeps circling or contradictory readings appear. Even then, the meeting needs a clear goal. Without one, there is no meeting.\nIf a meeting is needed, the coordinator will take care that:\nThe protocol page is published as soon as possible. The invitation has gone out to the people the meeting is for, with the place and the link. Documents, presentations, questions and comments have been made available in writing. Nothing will be read aloud in the meeting that could have been read beforehand. The open questions from the written discussion are being collected and added to the agenda. Participants prepare too: they read the materials and note their points in advance in the dedicated chat. Anyone who could not prepare is not expected to take part, and that is fine.\n2. The meeting # The meeting follows the agenda and nothing else. Three roles keep it on track, and they rotate between meetings:\nFacilitator: moderates every meeting. Leads through the agenda, gives everyone a turn, and consistently stops deviations from the topic. New topics that come up are put on the topic parking lot, a visible list of points for later, so they are neither lost nor discussed now. Open, unstructured discussion has its place, just not in a meeting.\nBefore a decision, the facilitator also checks for shared understanding, which is what makes a meeting better than a document. For instance, they give a concrete example and ask how it would play out, or ask a participant to explain the point in their own words. If the explanations differ, the group is not yet aligned, and that gap is what the remaining time is for.\nTimekeeper: keeps the remaining time visible to everyone throughout the meeting, on a time bar or a clock, and announces the end of each time box. When a time box runs out, the item is not extended.\nNote-taker: documents the meeting: decisions with their main arguments, open questions, the parking lot, and who does what by when. What is not in the minutes did not happen.\nEveryone else contributes by the same rules: be kind, assertive and empathetic. Wait your turn and think before talking. Get to the point, argue with tangible facts rather than emotions, and park your ego. What matters is advancing our political goals, not who is right.\nAnything that is not decided within its time box follows the stuck decision protocol (see Tactics Tactics How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. describe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # .\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # section.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. Way of Work # Organized to Respect Our Time # Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # to see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ). Discussion stops, two people write a proposal within a week, and the decision is taken in writing or at the next meeting. Nobody wins by exhaustion.\n3. Follow-up # Within a specified timeframe after the meeting:\nThe minutes are published where everyone can read them, including those who did not attend. Thanks to them, nobody misses anything. Every task from the meeting has a named person and a deadline. Proposals for undecided items are written and shared. Each point on the topic parking lot is assigned: to written discussion, to a future meeting, or dropped. That decision is recorded too. New uncertainties go to written discussion first. A further meeting is only scheduled if writing has failed to settle them. Ideally: The organizers run a 30-minute after-action review (or asynchronously in a chat). What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently? The answers go into the next protocol. Every meeting protocol is built from six blocks # # Block Answers Contents In the example 1 Overview When, where, how long? Date, time, place, total duration, status Header Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n2 Objectives What will we achieve, and how? SMART objectives with time allocation, expected outcome, and the agenda items that reach it Objectives table Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n3 Prior discussion Where do my questions go beforehand? The channel for written discussion, and the deadline Before the meeting Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n4 Responsibilities Who does what? Each role, what it does, and who takes it on Who does what Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n5 Materials What should I prepare? Name, page or timestamp, citation if applicable, link, and how it contributes Materials Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\n6 Participation Who is this meeting for, and how can I take part? Who should attend, levels of participation and the minimal requirements for each How to take part Directives Meeting Protocol Everything you need for the Directives Meeting: what we will cover, who does what, what to read, and how you can take part. The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the *stuck decision* protocol …\nA few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? .\nBefore the meeting # Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:\nWho does what # Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.\nMaterials # How to take part # Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. A few rules for writing each block:\nObjectives, not topics. \u0026ldquo;Discuss the directives\u0026rdquo; is a topic. \u0026ldquo;Agree on a draft of the directives, or a proposal and a date for deciding\u0026rdquo; is an objective. Each objective states its expected outcome, so everyone can tell afterwards whether it was reached. SMART objectives. Every objective is formulated SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. A plan for every objective. The agenda items under an objective are its plan: the concrete steps that get from the start of the time box to the outcome. Time boxes add up. Each objective gets a fixed time, split into agenda items, and the total is the length of the meeting. Two objectives are usually enough. We aim for 90 minutes at most, and less is better. Name the responsible person. Every task has a person or role next to it. A task without a name is not done. Open roles are marked TBD until someone volunteers. Say why each material matters. A reading list without a reason is homework. Each material states what it contributes to which objective, and points to the exact section, page or timestamp. Taking part # Not everyone needs to attend every meeting, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Each protocol says who the meeting is for, and offers three levels of participation, each with a few minimal requirements:\nActive participation: you take part in discussion and decisions. You have prepared the materials, sent your questions and comments in advance, and attend the whole meeting. Passive participation: you listen in and stay informed, without deciding. No preparation is needed, and questions in the chat are welcome. This is also the place for anyone who could not prepare. Non-participation: you don\u0026rsquo;t attend, but stay in the loop. You read the minutes afterwards and can raise objections in writing within a week. They are taken up before any decision is final. There is no pressure to attend. Not preparing is not a failure. It just means your time is better spent elsewhere this time, and the minutes will tell you everything. Written objections count as much as spoken ones, so people with little time, care work or irregular hours still have a voice, and decisions do not depend on who could attend at a given hour.\nWriting a new protocol # Before publishing, check:\nCould this be done in writing instead? Is the subject complex enough, or are people clearly not on the same page? Is every objective SMART, with its expected outcome, its plan and its time box? Do the time boxes add up to 90 minutes or less? Is it clear who the meeting is for, and who can skip it? Does every task in every phase have a name or role, including facilitator, timekeeper and note-taker? Does every material say why it matters, and is everything that can be read beforehand in the materials? Is there a visible timer and a topic parking lot ready for the meeting? 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Keep this in step with the status shown on the home page.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/open-research-tools/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Open Research Tools","type":"projects"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"},{"content":" Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us\\! ## Who We …\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/gast/strategies/","section":"Gasts","summary":"","title":"Strategies","type":"gast"},{"content":" Modeling the collective\u0026rsquo;s own activities as a dynamical system, to find where small interventions have outsized leverage. What this line of effort covers # Placeholder text for LOE-02 · Systems Modeling. Set out the scope here: what question this work is trying to answer, and what would count as progress.\nTheoretical frameworks # Dynamical systems, cybernetics.\nMain authors # Forrester, Meadows, Ashby.\nCurrent status # Placeholder. Keep this in step with the status shown on the home page.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/systems-modeling/","section":"Lines of Effort","summary":"","title":"Systems Modeling","type":"projects"},{"content":" How exactly do we work day to day? Tactics turn the sub-goals of our strategies into concrete, repeatable actions, and prepare us for what we cannot plan. The strategies Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. ## How we plan Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning …\ndescribe where we are going: lines of effort, each made of sub-goals. Tactics describe how we take each step. This is where most organizing either works or fails. A good strategy carried out with exhausting meetings and improvised actions still burns people out, and that hits the left\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity, its active organizers, first. So the tactics below follow one rule above all: every action must be worth the time of the people who carry it out.\nThey draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), translated from military planning to organizing.\nFrom goals to tasks # Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything.\nThe doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people.\nHere is one chain from our goals down to tasks:\nGoalG2 What we want to achieve, in measurable terms. Reduce burnout and member turnover in left organizations. Sub-goalSG2.4 A decisive point on a line of effort: once reached, the goal is measurably closer. Streamline meetings and move work async. Effects The conditions our actions should create — and those they must not. Desired: decisions take less meeting time. Undesired: members who can\u0026rsquo;t write long texts feel shut out of decisions. Tasks What we actually do to create the desired effects and prevent the undesired ones. Time-box every meeting to 45 minutes; move proposals to writing; keep a short spoken round for anyone who prefers it. Choosing how: options and tests # There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine\u0026rsquo;s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped:\n1 Suitable Does it reach the sub-goal?\nDoes it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account?\n2 Feasible Can we actually do it?\nWith the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had.\n3 Acceptable Is it worth the cost?\nDo the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law?\n4 Distinguishable Is it really a different option?\nTwo versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work.\n5 Complete Who, what, where, when, how, why?\nDoes it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked?\nWargame it 1 Action We do X. Walk through it concretely: who does what, when? 2 Reaction How do the others respond — members, allies, opponents, the landlord, the press? 3 Counteraction What do we do then? Where does the plan break, and what would we change? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not.\nBriefing a task # Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned.\nThis is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this:\nTask brief The 45-minute meetingSG2.4 Mission From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion.\nIntent PurposeGive members back their evenings: protect the people who carry the work. End stateDecisions are taken in 45 minutes or moved to written proposals; nobody leaves a meeting more tired than they came. RiskMembers who prefer talking to writing could feel excluded. Accept slower decisions on contested questions; never accept a decision nobody understood. The five Ws WhoThe coordination group, rotating facilitatorWhatAgenda with time boxes, decisions only; information goes out in writing beforehandWhenFrom the next general meeting; reviewed after three meetingsWhereThe usual room, with a video link for those who can\u0026#39;t comeWhyMeeting load is the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time (G2) Measure of performanceMeetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead.\nMeasure of effectivenessMeeting hours per decision; members\u0026#39; own rating of their workload.\nPrepared spontaneity: protocols # Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us! Who We Are and What We Want # For more info, see \u0026ndash;\u0026gt; About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; What is this page? What are you doing? This page introduces our collective, explaining our motivations, working methods, and active projects aimed at reaching our goals. What does \u0026#39;Embodied Dialectics\u0026#39; mean? Why did you choose this name? We borrowed the term \u0026ldquo;embodiment\u0026rdquo; from radical embodied cognition, a theoretical framework in psychology that applies systems science to understand how humans think and act. The word fits our dual focus: it reflects our theoretical approach to human cognition while also signaling direct action, meaning to embody theory in practice. We draw on dialectics from dialectical materialism as an analytical tool for studying systems defined by evolution, process, and tension. You presume to show others how it\u0026#39;s done. What entitles you to that position? We do not presume to know better, nor do we have all the answers. Our commitment is to the search for solutions alongside those who share our goals. We bring time, labour, and rigorous study to this shared work, recognizing that real methods are forged in the field alongside fellow organizers. Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? No. This collective supports all manifestations of the revolutionary left. We are not bound to any specific organizational structure, as in our framework, every structure has its contextual strategic role and capabilities. Are you trying to found a political party? No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; .\nAre you not just opportunists? Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them:\nRegarding the claim that we pursue short-term gains at the expense of revolutionary goals: Our collective aims to enable the exact opposite. Through the GAST framework, we build tools, protocols, and procedures that translate long-term objectives into concrete lines of effort and ground our tactical evaluations in that broader vision. See GAST framework for more information. Regarding the claim of right opportunism or abandoning systemic change: We refer readers directly to our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Regarding the claim of left opportunism, dogmatism, or building a theoretical temple: Effective praxis cannot exist without supporting theory. We develop both side by side through real-world application. For more context, see our About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; section. Theory and Science # “Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle? We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects here Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\n.\nOnly Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists? Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see About Us About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. Who we are # We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling .\nWe take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks, we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice. Because we know we don\u0026rsquo;t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages.\nWhat we offer # If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together!\nWho we are NOT # We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations.\nWhere we come from # The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective.\nThis ain\u0026rsquo;t working\u0026hellip; # We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working.\nWe focused on the how, not the what. # That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion.\nVast seas of knowledge. # There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example. Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs.\nSystems science for the win! # While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nsection for more details, but below a short overview of what we found:\nStrategy and Tactics formulation from military doctrine, intelligence agencies and counterinsurgency handbooks (all publicly available). The focus lies on how to translate goals into Lines of Effort (can be understood loosely as strategy) and tactics. Exercises of systems thinking and day-to-day tactical hygiene. Stafford Beers Viable Systems Theory (VST), a cybernetics-inspired management theory that conceptualizes organizations as living systems. It provides alternative organizational forms to the typical “hierarchical vs. flat” or “central vs. peripheral” dichotomies. Stafford Beer was also instrumental in Project Cybercyn, Salvador Allende\u0026rsquo;s attempt at a “socialist internet” in 1972 to automatically gather and process production data across Chile for near-instant decision-making. Cognitive Institutions, part of philosophy of mind and 4E cognition, a non-mainstream theoretical framework in psychology, markedly systemic and non-reductionist. It treats organizations as an informational extension and context for human thought, describing the interaction between individuals and organizations. Wolfang Weidlich\u0026rsquo;s Sociodynamics framework. Expression of organizations or other social phenomena as dynamical systems and how organizations influence its constituent individuals. This helped us understand further how individuals and organizations might interact. Robert Rosen’s Relational Biology and the use of category theory offer the theoretical foundations for our framework. Marxist Systems Theory as initiated by Georg Klaus in the GDR offers a re-interpretation of marxist analysis from systems theory perspective. The adoption of cybernetics in the Soviet Union offers additional inspiration. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our core principles Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nsection.\nIt seemed promising enough. # So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”.\nWe organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details.\nSo much work, so little time. # We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like Dialectical Systems , CIBCOM , New-Comm , and journals like Marxism and Sciences or Cosmonaut Magazine . Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. ). We develop actionable frameworks and facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure useful tools reach organizers, build capacity, and deliver real-world results.\nWhere we want to go # Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long.\nHelp is welcome! # Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our tooling overview Working Methods and Communication How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration. # Way of Work ## Organized to Respect Our Time Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When …\nto see our work processes and tools. For those looking to contribute directly to our theoretical models or offer practical, on-the-ground insights, check our theoretical frameworks Theoretical Frameworks This page outlines the primary theoretical frameworks guiding our work. We present these concepts directly to help you decide whether our approach aligns with your goals and if you would like to collaborate or engage with our collective. Lore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nLore Ipsum # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\npage and see if the topics interest you or the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. page for specific ways to get involved. We all have blind spots, making fresh viewpoints our most valuable asset. We need voices from every corner of society: scientists and artists, programmers and poets, locals and migrants, the formally educated and the self-taught. Tell us what systemic problems you face, what your ideal organization looks like, and what kind of movement would actually empower you. To ensure the safety and integrity of our collective, please note that we must verify all prospective collaborators through an active organization they are currently affiliated with.\n\u0026#32;\u0026#32; and the projects Lines of Effort Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously!\nThe strands of work the collective currently has open. Each one is summarised on the home page wheel; the pages below carry the detail. we currently work on). It directly addresses the reductionism that limits much institutional research and the usual criticisms claiming “positivism”. We are crafting a solid theoretical backbone for real-world practice where both methodological foundations reinforce each other.\nOur Methodology in Practice # Is all this not way too complicated? No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches.\nWhile grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once.\nDoes all that methodology not suck out spontaneity? No. We think our methodologies enable “prepared spontaneity”. An organization will be able to quickly react to known and novel situations, but with the proper self-developed protocols and strategies. For more details, see TACTICS. Where are the emotions? Where is the fight? The work we do in this collective is complementary to the emotional aspect of class struggle. We work mainly on a mental plane: planning, preparation, analysis and/or understanding. We think this will help to direct emotions effectively, avoiding rash decision-making instead of swift, decisive action according to protocols and plans. Raw emotions on their own are rarely useful if not given a direction. Our Place in the Revolutionary Left # You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views? It means that an organization should define itself and signal its intentions through concrete goals and clear real-world changes, not through ideological labels. While \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo; may indicate theoretical roots or organizational structures, they fail to explain what an organization actually aims to achieve today. Worse, these labels often trigger preconceptions and biases that divide potential allies. We believe that when the left moves past ideological labels to focus on clear, actionable goals, meaningful collaboration occurs naturally without requiring any group to betray its core principles. Effective practice always begins by defining smart, achievable goals. What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”? The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods.\nWe believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front.\nFor a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format.\n“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.” Alienating people from their fellow human beings is one of capitalism’s main achievements. This isolation holds us back whenever we fail to unite and collaborate. To overcome a broken system, we need an solidarity that gives our movement real strategic power. Solidarity cannot be forced by top-down decrees or moral posturing. It is both the foundation of a human-centered society and the downfall of capitalism. That is why we attempt to foster a new culture of practice. Frameworks like GAST help us define precisely where we can work together, bringing transparency and clarity to our respective organizations. We must explore diverse paths toward a better world, identifying which tactics deliver results under which circumstances. What is right is what proves effective and sets us free. There is not time for sectarian infighting. Working with Other Organizations # Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure? Absolutely not. This collective has no desire to “bend” any other organization to any concrete structure, as per our framework, all kinds of organizational structures are needed for a healthy and successful revolutionary ecosystem. Depending on an organization\u0026rsquo;s context, we might suggest processes to adapt the organizational structure better to their current circumstances. Those structural adaptations must always come as internal developments from the organization themselves. Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations? No, we do not practice entryism. We work strictly from the outside, engaging directly with an organization\u0026rsquo;s members that choose to or are authorized to interact with us in a collaborative relationship. We do not participate in any decision-making sessions or voting. Those members may want to propose new processes, adopt our materials, or implement protocols that transform their operations. These changes occur not because we push for them, but because the organization independently decides they advance its own goals. Regarding participation as a member of this collective # Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects? No, you do not need a technical background. While some of our work involves scientific or technical elements, every project requires diverse skills to succeed. Writers, designers, visual artists, and organizers are essential to our work. The only requirements are persistence and a willingness to learn. If you feel you lack experience or are unsure where you fit, we rely on mentorship and learning by doing to help everyone contribute effectively. Regarding collaborations with organizations # What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins? Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions.\nReal transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress.\nDoes it cost anything? Nothing except time and the effort you choose to commit. What do you expect in return? We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally.\nTo build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well.\nwe call this prepared spontaneity: reacting quickly to known and new situations, using protocols the group has worked out in advance. Joint planning doctrine provides the building blocks:\nDecision points: the latest moment a decision can still be made. Agreeing on it beforehand prevents both panic and endless debate. Branches: prepared alternatives for when the situation turns out differently than expected. Sequels: what follows once the immediate situation is over. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group\u0026rsquo;s energy goes into acting, not arguing.\nOverload signal IfA member misses commitments twice, or says they are overloaded. DecideAt the next weekly check-in — not later. Then Talk one-to-one, without blame.Redistribute or pause their tasks for at least two weeks.Record what caused the overload. BranchIf it is a core organizer: hand their role to the named deputy (see role handover). Sudden opportunity IfAn event opens a window: rent increases announced, layoffs, a scandal, a council vote. DecideWithin 48 hours: join, start something, or let it pass. Then Check the ASCOPE row Events: who else is affected and already acting?Ask: does it serve one of our goals?If yes, assign one contact person and a 2-week time box. BranchIf others are already organizing: support them instead of starting a parallel effort. Repression IfPolice action, a raid, arrests, or legal threats. DecideImmediately: the protocol runs without a meeting. Then Contact legal support; never speak to the police without a lawyer.One spokesperson only; everyone else refers to them.Check on everyone affected within 24 hours. BranchSequel: after the acute phase, run an after-action review and update the protocol. Stuck decision IfA decision is not reached within its time box. DecideAt the end of the time box. Then Stop the discussion; nobody wins by exhaustion.Two people write a proposal within a week.Decide in writing, or at the next meeting with the written proposal. BranchIf the same question gets stuck twice: it is probably a disagreement about goals, so go back to the goal card. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use.\nThe tactics catalogue # The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the lines of effort Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us\\! ## Who We …\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. (the SG badge links to it), names the effect it should create, and lists the steps, the time and the people it takes. Each card also names a measure of performance, which shows whether the tactic is actually used. Whether it has the desired effect is measured at the level of the goals: see assessing and adapting Strategies Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step. How we plan # Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ) and strip it down to four questions. Each section of this page answers one of them:\n1 Where are we? Understand the environment 2 Where do we want to go? Set the goals 3 What stands in the way? Define the problem 4 How do we get there? Lines of effort ↺ Assess and adapt. Planning is not linear: what we learn along the way changes our picture of the environment, the problem and the plan. Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away.\nUnderstanding the operational environment # Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. ), a planning tool for finding an organization\u0026rsquo;s centre of gravity and the weak points around it. Its central idea translates well: rather than chasing thousands of worker bees, find the queen.\nIt works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most.\nStep 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there # Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood?\nThe table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing.\nA Areas S Structures C Capabilities O Organizations P People E Events P Political A · Areas Electoral districts, council wards S · Structures Town hall, party offices C · Capabilities Petitions, citizens\u0026rsquo; initiatives, local voting rights O · Organizations Left parties, councils, NGOs P · People Councillors, candidates, local politicians E · Events Elections, council meetings, referendums M Security A · Areas Protest routes, contested squares, heavily policed areas S · Structures Police stations, courts C · Capabilities Legal aid, awareness teams, operational security O · Organizations Police, legal collectives, far-right groups P · People Lawyers, legal observers, police liaison E · Events Demonstrations, raids, trials E Economic A · Areas Industrial zones, gentrifying districts S · Structures Factories, warehouses, job centres C · Capabilities Strike funds, mutual-aid funds, membership fees O · Organizations Unions, works councils, employers\u0026rsquo; associations, landlords P · People Shop stewards, employers, landlords E · Events Strikes, wage rounds, rent increases, layoffs S Social A · Areas Neighbourhoods, campuses, housing estates S · Structures Community centres, social centres, cafés, sports clubs C · Capabilities Neighbourhood networks, childcare, language skills O · Organizations Tenants\u0026rsquo; and migrant associations, sports clubs P · People Tenants, neighbours, students, elders E · Events Festivals, holidays, school terms I Infrastructure A · Areas Transit corridors, districts without meeting rooms S · Structures Meeting rooms, print shops, servers C · Capabilities Encrypted messengers, shared calendars, rented rooms O · Organizations Housing co-ops, tech collectives, funders P · People Venue owners, sysadmins, caretakers E · Events Venue closures, platform policy changes I Information A · Areas Poster walls, local forums, news catchment areas S · Structures Notice boards, local radio, print shops C · Capabilities Social media reach, newsletters, translation O · Organizations Independent media, corporate media, platforms P · People Journalists, influencers, translators E · Events Campaign launches, anniversaries, news cycles Step 2: Relating the actors — the system # A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most.\nOur collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves.\nNot every actor is on the left\u0026rsquo;s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end.\nThe organized left Political Security Economic Social Infrastructure Information Active organizers – The doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Activeorganizers Members\u0026#39; time – What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Members\u0026#39;time Decision making – Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026#39; time. Decisionmaking Know-how – Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Know-how Shared goals – Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Sharedgoals Left parties (supportive) – The electoral front: one of many legitimate avenues towards shared goals. Leftparties Government (neutral) Government Far right (hostile) Far right Police (hostile) – Can disrupt actions and gatherings; a reason to keep organizers protected and roles replaceable. Police Legal support (supportive) – Legal aid and know-your-rights training keep organizers safe enough to stay active. Legalsupport Surveillance (hostile) – Monitoring of digital channels makes operational security part of every practice. Surveillance Employers \u0026amp; landlords (hostile) Employers \u0026amp;landlords Paid work (neutral) – Long hours, care work and precarious jobs leave little time and energy for organizing. Paid work Unions (supportive) – Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Unions Neighbourhoods – Where new organizers come from; recruitment keeps a few people from carrying everything. Neighbourhoods Friends \u0026amp; family Friends \u0026amp;family Community groups (supportive) Communitygroups Meeting spaces – Affordable rooms to meet, train and organize in. Meetingspaces Digital tools – Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Digitaltools Funding Funding Our collective (supportive) – Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Ourcollective Research – Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Research Social media (neutral) Socialmedia Corporate media (hostile) Corporatemedia ← swipe to explore the map → Node Hostile actor Centre of gravity Critical requirement Critical vulnerability Strength Key link EndsWhat we want to achieve A diverse but coordinated, self-organized left: a coalition of effective movements that builds real alternatives and a society that meets everyone\u0026rsquo;s needs. G1G2G3 Critical capabilityThe way we achieve them Organize people and coordinate across fronts — sustained over years, not weeks. Centre of gravityThe doer that has this capability Active organizers The organized leftThe doers across all left groups — local, national, union, electoral: the people who plan, mobilize and carry the work. Every advance is made through them. Test If the left\u0026rsquo;s active organizers burned out or drifted apart, could any manifesto, label or platform still reach these ends? No — so they, not the ideas or the labels, are the centre of gravity. Critical requirementsWhat it needs and uses up to act Members\u0026#39; time Decision making Know-how Shared goals Legal support Neighbourhoods Meeting spaces Critical vulnerabilitiesRequirements that are deficient — where effort pays off most Members\u0026#39; time The organized leftG2 What organizers use up to act. Strong commitment and countless hours, but few stay active for long: burnout and turnover drain the left faster than it grows. Decision making The organized leftG2 Needed to act together, but long, unstructured meetings turn it into the biggest drain on members\u0026rsquo; time. Know-how The organized leftG1 Without a shared culture of practice, experience stays in a few heads and every group starts from zero, often re-enacting historical blueprints instead. Shared goals The organized leftG3 Most groups share similar overarching goals, but describe themselves through labels that divide instead of comparable goals that would show where they can work together. Strengths to build on Unions Economic Organized workplaces with experience, resources and reach across many fronts. Digital tools InfrastructureG2 Async tools let people contribute whenever they have time, without another meeting. Our collective InformationG1 Us: we provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside. We are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Research InformationG1 Decades of organizational and systems research that can be translated into practice. Step 3: From the system to the critical factors # With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom:\nEnds – what we want to achieve. Here, these are our goals Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\n. Critical capability – the main way to get there, phrased as a verb: what we must be able to do. Centre of gravity – the doer that has this capability. It has to be something tangible: people, a group, a resource, never an abstract quality like \u0026ldquo;morale\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;the will of the people\u0026rdquo;. Qualities like these are what the doer needs, which makes them critical requirements. The test: if this were weakened or lost, could the ends still be reached? If not, it is the centre of gravity. For the left, that is its active organizers. Critical requirements – what the centre of gravity needs and uses up to act: time, decisions, know-how, allies, spaces. Critical vulnerabilities – the requirements that are deficient or exposed. They are where a limited effort has the largest effect, and where the organization is most at risk. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left\u0026rsquo;s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members\u0026rsquo; time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3).\nThis is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today.\nDefining the problem # Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ), and with good reason: even small differences in how a problem is understood lead to very different plans. Its first rule is to tell symptoms from root causes. Treating symptoms keeps an organization busy without changing anything; in the doctrine\u0026rsquo;s own example, fighting insurgents seldom addresses why there is an insurgency.\nSymptoms what we see Low impact despite strong commitmentBurnout and high member turnoverLong, exhausting meetingsSplintered groups and sectarian infighting because of Root causes what produces it No clearly defined, comparable goals. Groups describe themselves through labels, not through what they want to change, so neither progress nor common ground can be seen.No shared culture of practice. Methods are not written down, tested or passed on; every group starts from zero or re-enacts historical blueprints.Organizational forms not adapted to their context. Structures and routines are inherited rather than chosen, and they consume the time and energy of the people carrying them. The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it.\nCurrent conditions Desired conditions Goal Commitment drains away in burnout and turnover. → Organizers stay active for years, with a workload they can sustain. G2 Decisions take long, unstructured meetings. → Decisions are made efficiently, and much of the work moves asynchronous. G2 Experience stays in a few heads and leaves with them. → A shared, field-tested toolkit that groups adapt to their own situation. G1 Groups with similar goals work side by side without knowing it. → Goals are written in a shared format; groups coordinate directly. G3 Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what\u0026rsquo;s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more.\nProblem statement The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left\u0026rsquo;s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on. Lines of effort # With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the goal Goals What we aim to achieve, formulated in measurable terms. Every goal states how we will know we are getting there, and when the job is done. 1 Goal 1 Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing. We translate the GAST framework and findings from systems science into exercises, protocols and templates that organizations can adopt piece by piece, without having to take on the whole framework at once. 1. Timeframe Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027.\n2. Metrics Published exercises – number of field-tested exercises in the open toolkit. Adoption – number of organizations using at least one of them in their regular practice. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us.\n2 Goal 2 Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with. Too many committed people leave after a short time, worn down by long meetings and flimsy results. We help organizations make their work sustainable: clearer goals, fewer and shorter meetings, and tasks that fit the time people actually have. 1. Timeframe Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months.\n2. Metrics Retention – share of members still active after a year, before and after the collaboration. Meeting load – meeting hours per decision taken. Workload – members\u0026rsquo; own assessment of how sustainable their workload is. 3. Stopping criteria Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there.\n3 Goal 3 Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. Different organizations fight on different fronts, and that is a strength. What is missing is a shared language for goals, so groups can see where they overlap and work together directly, without a platform or party in the middle. 1. Timeframe Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028.\n2. Metrics Shared goals – number of organizations publishing their goals in a shared, comparable format. Direct coordination – number of joint actions coordinated directly between groups. 3. Stopping criteria Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator.\nthe line serves, and sub-goals are numbered after it: SG1.1, SG1.2, … belong to goal 1.\nLines of effort End state LOE 1 Open toolkit SG1.1 Collect and annotate the literature (done) SG1.2 Draft exercises and protocols (in progress) SG1.3 Field-test them with partner organizations SG1.4 Publish the open-access toolkit SG1.5 Translate into five languages G1 Organizations run, adapt and extend the toolkit on their own Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across organizational research, systems science and the history of the movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group can pick up without reading the literature first.\nEvery exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation.\nLOE 2 Sustainable organizations SG2.1 Make contact and assess needs together (in progress) SG2.2 Measure retention and meeting load as a baseline SG2.3 Introduce GAST goal-setting SG2.4 Streamline meetings and move work async SG2.5 Mentor members in key roles SG2.6 Review the results after 12 months G2 Healthy retention and workload in partner organizations This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nWe never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view. See the FAQ Frequent Criticisms and Questions Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us\\! ## Who We …\non how collaborations work.\nLOE 3 Coordinated left SG3.1 Define a shared format for goals SG3.2 Publish our own goals as an example SG3.3 Bring organizations on board to publish theirs SG3.4 Map the overlaps between groups SG3.5 Pilot a joint cross-organization action SG3.6 Step back from the mediating role G3 Groups coordinate directly, without a mediator Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest. Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format, overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly.\nWe go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same. The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a mediator, us included.\nDone In progress Planned The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law.\nAssessing and adapting # No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning. Joint Operations. ): it compares the conditions we wanted with the conditions we actually see, and adjusts the plan accordingly.\n1 Monitor Collect what is happening: sub-goals reached, the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics, changes in the environment. 2 Evaluate Compare it with what we expected. What works, what doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and why? 3 Adapt Adjust the sub-goals, reorder them, or change the line of effort itself. ↺ …and back to monitoring: assessment never stops while the plan runs. Measures of performance Are we doing things right?\nDid we do what we said we would? These track our own actions.\nSub-goals reached on each line of effortExercises published, workshops held Measures of effectiveness Are we doing the right things?\nIs it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment.\nMember retention and meeting load in partner organizationsGroups publishing comparable goals, joint actions between them Time to rethink the approach when… A goal is reached, or turns out to be out of reach.The centre of gravity or a critical vulnerability has shifted.Lines of effort make progress, but the conditions don\u0026rsquo;t change. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals\u0026rsquo; metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. .\nLike every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works.\nG1 Open toolkit T1.1 SG1.3 After-action review Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it.\nRight after an action or project, take 30 minutes.Ask four questions: What did we plan? What happened? Why the difference? What will we do differently?Write the answers on one page and file it where everyone can find it. Time30 minutesPeopleEveryone who took partMeasureShare of actions followed by a written review. T1.2 SG1.2 Exercise card A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action.\nDescribe the practice on one card: purpose, effect, steps, time, people.Have someone from another group run it from the card alone.Fix whatever they got wrong — that\u0026rsquo;s where the card was unclear. Time1–2 hoursPeople2 writers, 1 testerMeasureExercises tested by an outside group before publication. G2 Sustainable organizations T2.1 SG2.2 Retention baseline Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed.\nList everyone who was active a year ago.Mark who is still active today, and who left when.Note, where known, why people left. TimeOne eveningPeople2 people with access to the membership listMeasureBaseline completed and repeated every 6 months. T2.2 SG2.3 Goal workshop The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms.\nCollect everything the group wants to achieve; sort into goals and wishes.For each goal, agree on a timeframe, metrics and a stopping criterion.Write each goal on a goal card and publish it inside the group. Time3 hoursPeopleThe whole group, 1 facilitatorMeasureGoals with metrics and stopping criteria, revisited at least yearly. T2.3 SG2.4 The 45-minute meeting Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing.\nSend the agenda and all information 48 hours ahead, in writing.Use the meeting for decisions only, each with a time box.Anything not decided in time goes to a written proposal. Time45 minutes per meetingPeopleRotating facilitator, timekeeperMeasureMeetings within 45 minutes; meeting hours per decision. T2.4 SG2.5 Role handover No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn\u0026#39;t stop the work.\nGive every key role a named deputy.Keep a one-page handover note per role: contacts, routines, open tasks.Let the deputy run the role for one month a year. Time1 hour per role, then 15 minutes a monthPeopleRole holder and deputyMeasureKey roles with a deputy and a current handover note. G3 Coordinated left T3.1 SG3.1 Goal card Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen.\nWrite each goal in the shared format: goal, timeframe, metrics, stopping criterion.Leave out labels; describe what should change.Publish the cards where other groups can read them. Time1 hour per goalPeopleWhoever ran the goal workshopMeasureGroups publishing goal cards. T3.2 SG3.4 Overlap mapping Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly.\nLay the goal cards of several groups side by side.Mark goals that overlap, complement each other, or conflict.For each overlap, name one contact person per group. Time2 hoursPeople1–2 people from each groupMeasureOverlaps found; contacts made; joint actions that follow. Keeping tactics honest # Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group\u0026rsquo;s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows.\nReferences Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., \u0026amp; Boyer, M. (2014). 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Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.\nOur workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.\nKnowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).\nDrafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.\nVersion Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.\nInternal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.\nProgramming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.\nProject Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.\nA in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:\nEmbodiedDialecticsCollective/knowledge_percolation_workflow This repository contains an Obsidian Vault Template—an empty vault preconfigured with all relevant settings, templates, and scripts. It can be easily copied and used as a starting point for streamlined note-taking and writing workflows. null 0 0 Core Principles # Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.\nRejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.\nRejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.\nYes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about \u0026ldquo;schools of thought\u0026rdquo;, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other \u0026ldquo;isms\u0026rdquo;.\nToo often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: \u0026ldquo;Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?\u0026rdquo;.\nIndependence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.\nCooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome About The Collective of Embodied Dialectics focuses on developing practical, actionable tools and methodologies to advance class struggle and build a cooperative, ecologically viable society. # Who we are We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of …\nsection.\nResponsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).\nScientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.\nCollaboration # Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.\nWhen collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner\u0026rsquo;s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners\u0026rsquo; structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.\nFinally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.\nBeing a member of this collective vs. collaboration # !!!!!\nMethodology # ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/methodology/ways_of_work_principles/","section":"Methodology","summary":"How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.","title":"Working Methods and Communication","type":"methodology"}]